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The cartoon Animal Farm is an animation based off the novel by George Orwell. It is about animals that live on a farm who are unhappy with how they are being treated by the farmer, Mr. Jones. They stage an uprising and run him off the property. The animals do well in organizing and running…

With the story unfolding out in the vein of a Greek tragedy, F.Scott Fitzgerald, with his quintessential work The Great Gatsby, has created a novel that destroys the illusion of the American Dream – a dream of money, wealth, prosperity, and happiness. The American Dream is shown to be a tragedy, an achievable goal that…

After finally watching Lord of The Flies, I have decided that human beings will always form some sort of a political system. This is to provide us with regulation in our lives, which, I believe, we need in order to survive. In the movie, we see that rules and a code of behavior are desperately…

In The Great Gatsby, the Valley of Ashes prominently displays the color gray, symbolizing despair in this desolate location. Fitzgerald describes it as a peculiar farm where ashes grow like wheat, shaping ridges, hills, and strange gardens. The ash-gray men tirelessly swarm with heavy shovels, forming an impenetrable cloud. The Valley of Ashes is inhabited…

Critics have made a lot of accusations against the amount of racism and anti-feminist comments in Joseph Conrad’s novel, Heart of Darkness. These critics have well crafted their arguments on why their point of view on the content of the novel is the correct opinion. Across all the accusations, there seems to be one common…

Isolationism in Metamorphosis and Notes from Underground World Literature: Paper 2 The common subject in both Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka and Notes from Underground by Fyodor Dostoyevsky is isolationism. Both of these literary plants contain different illustrations of isolationism in order to convey the same construct. Privacy exists in both novels, ensuing in the direct…

The Color Black and Symbolism in “The Lottery” People are influenced by a variety of different sources – their parents, their friends, and their communities. While everyone must learn to make their own decisions, they often follow the beliefs of the people around them. Teenagers register to vote as a “Democrat” merely because their parents…

While the setting of Shirley Jacksons, The Lottery, takes place on a clear,sunny, June day, it does not take long for the skies to turn gray as sheintroduces the readers to the black box. The black box is the central symbol ofthe short story. It suggest both death and necessity of change due to acombination…

Hamlet- Documented Essay Marcellus’ quote, “Something is rotten in the state of Denmark” (I, iv, 100), is the overall theme to Act I, of Shakespeare’s Hamlet, but can also relate to the whole play. When he said it, it was only to mean that something suspicious was occurring and things didn’t seem right. However, it…

I, living in the 21st century, would be inclined to agree with the above statement, but a 17th century audience might be more likely to disagree due to an increased belief in the supernatural – therefore I believe that the question that needs to be asked is, to what extent is Macbeth responsible for his…